– Lord Tebbit, speaking on Newsnight, suggests an EU migrant ‘test’ Lord Tebbit has suggested a new version of his famous “cricket test”, to decide which immigrants are welcome in the UK. The former Tory party chairman told BBC Newsnight that EU migrants could be asked who their fathers or grandfathers fought for in World War Two. In 1990 Lord Tebbit proposed a “cricket test”, suggesting immigrants who did not support the England cricket team had not integrated into society.